Patents by Inventor Tadashi Morita

Tadashi Morita has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8818312
    Abstract: A method for a communication device includes determining whether a first radio frequency (RF) signal at a level of at least a first predetermined field threshold is detected. The method also includes generating a second RF signal at a level of at least a second predetermined field threshold greater than the first predetermined field threshold, when the communication device receives an instruction to generate the second RF signal and the determining determines that the first RF signal at the level of at least the first predetermined field threshold is not detected. The method further includes receiving a load modulated RF signal in response to the second RF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihide Fujii, Tadashi Morita, Shigeru Arisawa, Yoshihisa Takayama
  • Patent number: 8819458
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a program executing unit which interprets and executes codes of a computer program created in a procedural language in an environment with a tamper resistant performance, wherein a security attribute and an authentication key are provided in units of functions in the computer program executed by the program executing unit, and wherein the program executing unit executes authentication processing with the authentication key for executing the function, which makes it possible to execute the function based on the security attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 8791433
    Abstract: An ion implanting apparatus is provided, which can accurately measure a quantity of atoms that are implanted. The ion implanting apparatus according to the present invention has an object to be measured, and the object to be measured is arranged in an irradiating range in which ions are irradiated. When atoms are implanted into an object to be processed by irradiating ions of a processing gas and neutralized particles thereof, the object to be measured is heated through the irradiation with the processing gas ions and the neutralized particles. A control unit determines a quantity of the atoms that are implanted into the object to be processed from the temperature of the object to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ulvac, Inc.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Nishihashi, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Tadashi Morita, Kenji Sato, Tsutomu Tanaka, Takuya Uzumaki
  • Patent number: 8788717
    Abstract: An application program relating to a process of an integrated circuit is stored in a virtual integrated circuit storage area server apparatus. Following a mutual authentication between the IC and the virtual storage area server apparatus through a portable communication function unit, the server apparatus executes the application program. Additionally, through the IC, the portable communication function unit, a wireless communication line, and a network, communicate with an IC_R/W apparatus and perform a process relating to a service in collaboration with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Yamagata, Shigeru Arisawa, Kenji Nakada, Akira Fukada, Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 8782749
    Abstract: An IC card compatible with a DES scheme and an AES scheme having a security strength different from that of the DES scheme, includes an inhibition information receiving section for receiving inhibition information for inhibiting predetermined manipulation from being performed in a storage region of the IC card using the DES scheme from an issuing device using the AES scheme, an inhibition flag setting section for performing inhibition processing for inhibiting the predetermined manipulation by the inhibition information, a manipulation request receiving section for receiving a manipulation request from a service providing device or the issuing device, and a manipulation executing section for executing the requested manipulation if the requested manipulation does not correspond to the predetermined manipulation inhibited by the inhibition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiharu Takemura, Hiroaki Hamada, Katsuya Shimoji, Kazuyuki Sakamoto, Daisuke Shiigi, Yasumasa Nakatsugawa, Tadashi Morita
  • Publication number: 20140192923
    Abstract: Transmission outputs of a plurality of transmission branches (101, 102) are extracted by coupler sections (161, 162). Branch detectors (121, 122) respectively detect the levels of the extracted signals of the respective transmission branches and a combination detector (130) detects an output obtained by combining two extracted outputs from the transmission branches by a signal combining section (110). An amplitude error is detected and corrected by comparing output levels of the branch detectors (121, 122), and a phase error is detected and corrected by an output level of the combination detector (130).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiaki Matsuo, Tadashi Morita, Takaaki Kishigami, Hirohito Mukai
  • Patent number: 8767894
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to shorten a time required to perform Auto Gain Control (AGC) processing in a wireless device that can be applied to a plurality of wireless systems. On the basis of a first gain adjusted by means of a gain control unit (450-1), an initial gain setting unit (460) sets, for a variable gain unit (432-2), an initial gain (converted second initial gain) at the start of gain adjustment. Then, a gain control unit (450-2) sets the initial gain to a second gain at the time of starting the gain adjustment, and adjusts the second gain on the basis of IQ signals of a system, the IQ signals having the level adjusted by means of the variable gain unit (432-2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 8756702
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that allow a provision server of an application to be capable of easily causing an electronic apparatus having an IC chip to manage data. When a service-issuing command transmitted from a service-issuing terminal 11 is received, in a service-issuing function 21 of an IC card 2, information indicating a service data structure and a program describing a processing sequence that correspond to an identifier transmitted as a command parameter are acquired from a service definition database 23. In the service-issuing function 21, IC-card internal processing is performed, and a service data structure for managing data to be used for receiving the provision of a specific application is prepared in a file system 22. The present invention can be applied to an apparatus having an IC chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori Kanemoto, Tadashi Morita
  • Publication number: 20140136854
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a program execution unit configured to read, interpret and execute a code of a computer program that is created in a procedural language, and a backup unit configured to create a backup in a format in which a variable definition and a function definition in the code being executed by the program execution unit are interpretable as a code in the procedural language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi Morita
  • Publication number: 20140111367
    Abstract: A pulse transmission controller generates transmission timing signals for a high-frequency radar transmission signal in every transmission cycle. A transmission phase shifter gives a transmission signal generated by a modulator phase shifts each corresponding to a transmission cycle on the basis of the transmission timing signals generated at intervals that are equal to the transmission cycle. A reception phase shifter gives a reception signal that is output from an A/D converter reception phase shifts that are opposite in direction to the respective transmission phase shifts given by the transmission phase shifter on the basis of the transmission timing signals generated at intervals that are equal to the transmission cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Hirohito Mukai, Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 8702913
    Abstract: A film formation apparatus and film formation method that improve film thickness uniformity. A rotation mechanism holds a target having a sputtered surface in a state inclined relative to a surface of a substrate. The rotation mechanism rotatably supports the target about an axis extending along a normal of the sputtered surface. The target supported by the rotation mechanism is sputtered to form a thin film on the surface of the substrate. When forming the thin film, the rotation mechanism maintains the rotational angle of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Ulvac, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Imakita, Tadashi Morita, Hiroki Yamamoto, Naoki Morimoto, Ayao Nabeya, Shinya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8704636
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage block configured to store a first region as part of a layer structure; an execution block which, in response to a designation command transmitted by a communication apparatus to designate the creation of a second region as a lower layer of the first region, performs a region creation process for creating the second region as the lower layer of the first region; and a transmission block which, if the region creation process is stopped, then transmits first information indicating whether or not the second region is already created to the communication apparatus, in response to a request from the communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiharu Takemura, Tadashi Morita, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8693599
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless receiving apparatus, whereby inter-antenna interference can be reduced without inducing an increase of a mounting area due to an increase of the number of antennas, and the number of RFIC input terminals, circuit scale and power consumption can be reduced. In the wireless receiving apparatus (100), when a receiving antenna (110-1) and a down-converter (130) are connected with a multiplexer (120) therebetween, a capacity control unit (190-2) controls the capacity value of the capacity-variable parasitic element (180-2) connected to the receiving antenna (110-2) such that the communication capacity of the receiving antenna (110-1) is maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyomichi Araki, Noriaki Saito, Tadashi Morita
  • Publication number: 20140085127
    Abstract: A radar transmitting unit Tx transmits a radio-frequency radar transmission signal from a transmission antenna which is inclined in the direction of a depression angle ?. A radar receiving unit Rx estimates the height and speed of a vehicle which travels on a road surface using a reflected wave signal from the vehicle. A template generating unit generates a variation in a phase component of the reflected wave signal corresponding to N heights and speeds of the vehicle as N templates. N vehicle height/speed template correlation calculation units #1 to #Nrep calculate correlation on the basis of any one of the N templates and a correlation value between the reflected wave signal and a transmission code of the radar transmission signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Takafumi Tokuhiro, Tadashi Morita
  • Publication number: 20140064264
    Abstract: A WiGig wireless device partially performs a masking processing on a preamble of a transmission signal frame and generates a repetition pattern of the same pulse capable of being used in a correlation detection of a sensor. That is, a repetition pattern of a Golay code is output by intermittently performing the masking processing on the Golay code sequence. The sensor performs the correlation detection using a pulse compression technology, thereby detecting the antenna radiation pattern even in an environment where a reflected wave is generated, by separating the direct wave and the reflected wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Morita, Takaaki Kishigami, Hirohito Mukai
  • Patent number: 8655297
    Abstract: Disclosed are a nonlinear distortion compensating receiver and nonlinear distortion compensation method, wherein nonlinear distortion is reduced with a simple circuit configuration. A correction (opposite characteristics) filter (104) has characteristics opposite that of the frequency characteristics of a direct sampling mixer (102) and corrects signals sampled by the direct sampling mixer (102). In the main path, a LPF (106) extracts a frequency band component of a desired signal from the corrected signal. In the replica path, a BPF (107) extracts the frequency band component of a blocker signal from the corrected signal. A cubing circuit (108) uses the frequency band component of the blocker signal to generate a replica signal for the nonlinear distortion. An adaptive filter (110) performs filter processing on the replica signal while updating the filter coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Tsukamoto, Noriaki Saito, Yoshito Shimizu, Tadashi Morita, Katsuaki Abe
  • Publication number: 20130329832
    Abstract: A transmission RF section (101) up-converts a DA-converted test signal into a high-frequency signal. An amplitude of the high-frequency signal, an envelope of which is detected by a loop-back section, is detected by an amplitude detector (400). An inverse characteristic calculator (402) converts the detected amplitude into an amplitude in the transmission RF section (101) using an inverse conversion table (407) and then calculates amplitude inverse characteristics. An FIR filter (103) corrects a signal band of a transmission signal based on a result of an inverse Fourier transform calculated by an IFFT section (405) based on the amplitude inverse characteristics as a variable factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Morita, Naganori Shirakata
  • Patent number: 8605903
    Abstract: A communication system uniquely identifying a communication partner within a predetermined coverage area and transmitting and receiving information in a predetermined protocol, includes a device and an information processing apparatus with one performing wireless communication with the other within the predetermined coverage area. The device includes a random number generating unit, a device secret key storage unit, a communication ID transmitting unit, and a device transmitting and receiving unit. The information processing apparatus includes an apparatus encryption unit, an apparatus secret key storage unit, a communication ID storage unit, a random number acquisition unit and an apparatus transmitting and receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Morita, Toshinori Kanemoto
  • Patent number: 8577293
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a short-range communication unit that receives an inquiry signal from a short-range external communication apparatus and transmits a response signal in response to the inquiry signal. The communication apparatus also includes a long-range communication unit that communicates in a range wider than a communication area of the short-range communication unit. Further, the communication apparatus includes a session key generation unit that generates a session key, and an encrypting unit that encrypts the session key. The communication apparatus uses an encryption key transmitted from an external communication apparatus to encrypt the session key into an encrypted session key, transmits the encrypted session key to the external communication apparatus, and receives from the external communication apparatus a request signal to request a long-range communication, with the session key, by the long-range communication unit by using the short-range communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Takayama, Tadashi Morita
  • Publication number: 20130288398
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a method of manufacturing a perpendicular magnetization-type magnetic element, which does not need a step of depositing MgO. [Solving Means] The method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive element 1 according to the present invention includes laminating a first layer 30 on a base 10, the first layer 30 including a material containing at least one of Co, Ni, and Fe. Next, a second layer 40 is laminated on the first layer 30, the second layer 40 including Mg. Next, the Mg in the second layer 40 is oxidized to form MgO by applying an oxidation treatment to a laminated body including the first layer 30 and the second layer 40. Next, the second layer 40 is crystallized by applying a heat treatment to the laminated body, and the first layer 30 is caused to be perpendicularly magnetized. According to the manufacturing method, it is possible to manufacture a perpendicular magnetization-type CoFeB—MgO magnetic element without causing a problem arising from the deposition of MgO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, ULVAC, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Tadashi Morita, Hideo Ohno, Shoji Ikeda